ABOUT REFIK ANADOL STUDIO
EMBEDDING MEDIA ARTS INTO ARCHITECTURE WITH DATA AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
Established in 2014 by Refik Anadol, a pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence, Refik Anadol Studio produces enthralling and immersive media art intended for anyone, any age and any background. The award-winning studio has been engaged by leading tech companies, groundbreaking researchers and cutting-edge thought leaders to produce projects that have been shown in over 50 cities, spanning six continents, and experienced by millions of ardent fans.
“As an ‘inventor’ of our time, able to bring the invisible into the visible through art grounded in neuroscience, you have honored Leonardo da Vinci’s legacy. The prize is a tribute in recognition of your breakthrough creative production resulting from an experimental and creative process combining new media, performance, visual arts and architecture. With experiential installations, you have engaged viewers in a play on perception triggering a rethinking of aesthetics while dissolving boundaries that constrain our imagination.”
– Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for new media art given by the Florence Biennale
Refik Anadol Studio comprises artists, architects, data scientists, and researchers from diverse professional and personal backgrounds, embracing principles of inclusion and equity throughout every stage of production. Studio members originate from 10 different countries and are collectively fluent in 14 languages. The Studio’s internship program also demonstrates our strong commitment to mentoring young people from a variety of personal experiences, values, and world views.
CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS
RAS AWARDS
D&AD Award (Spatial Design Category) – Machine Hallucinations Nature Dreams (2022)
IF Design Award (Exhibition Category) – Machine Memoirs: Space (2022)
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Best of Best Museum Exhibition at the C2A/Creative Communication Awards – Quantum Memories (2021)
Global Future Design Award – Quantum Memories (2021)
German Design Award, Excellent Architecture Fair and Exhibition – Quantum Memories (2021)
MUSE Platinum Winner for Experiential & Immersive Exhibition – Quantum Memories (2021)
Fast Company Experimental Innovation by Design Honoree – Quantum Memories (2021)
German Design Award – WDCH Dreams (2021)
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IF Design Award – WDCH Dreams (2020)
Iconic Awards, Innovative Architecture: Machine Hallucination (2020)
German Design Award – WDCH Dreams (2020)
D&AD Awards, Pencil Winner, Spacial Design/Installation Design – WDCH Dreams (2020)
Columbia University’s Breakthrough in Storytelling Award – Machine Hallucination (2020)
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Design and Build Awards, Most Outstanding in Cultural Architecture: Hall/Theatre – WDCH Dreams (2019)
Iconic Awards, Innovative Architecture: WDCH Dreams (2019)
German Design Award – Archive Dreaming (2019)
GQ Turkey, Man of the Year (2019)
Lumen Gold Prize – Melting Memories (2019)
Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for New Media Art (2019)
SEGD Global Design Awards (2016, 2019)
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SEGD Global Design Awards – Archive Dreaming, Honor Award and Best of Show Award (2018)
Southern California Development Forum, Technological Innovation – WDCH Dreams (2018)
D&AD Awards, Outstanding Creative Excellence, Spacial Design/Installation Design – Archive Dreaming
(2018)
Iconic Awards: Innovative Architecture – Archive Dreaming (2018)
Google’s Art and Machine Intelligence Artist Residency Award (2016 & 2018)
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German Design Award – Infinity Room (2017)
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UCLA Art+Architecture Moss Award (2014)
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Award (2014)
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Microsoft Research’s Best Vision Award (2013)
Virtual Depictions :San Francisco
AI Data Sculpture
Date: September 30th, 2015 (Installation date of the permanent piece)
Project Partners: Arup, Sensory Interactive, Sansi North America, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM), Webcar Builders, WSP | Parsons and Brinckerhoff
Archive Dreaming
Immersive Installation
Date: April 20th, 2017 – June 11th, 2017
Project Partners: SALT Galata, Google AMI, Mike Tyka, Kenric McDowell, Andrea Held, Jac de Haan
“As material archives are digitized, their data can become the source of new discovery or creative working material. Refik Anadol’s Archive Dreaming creates an immersive environment that blurs the lines between historical and modern, material and digital, two and three- dimensional.”
Humanities, Arts, and Society Magazine
Melting Memories
AI Data Sculpture
Date: February 7th, 2018 – March 17th, 2018
Project Partners: Pilevneli Gallery, UCSF/ Neuroscape Lab Members, and Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D.
Interconnected
AI Data Sculpture and Paintings
Date: July, 2018
Project Partners: Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT)
WDCH Dreams
Data & AI Driven Public Installation
Date: September 27th, 2018 – October 6th, 2018
Project Partners: LA Phil, Google Arts & Culture: Artist and Machine Intelligence Program
“Anadol has catalogued the 100 archival years of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, transforming the information into a stunning visual celebration that brings the Walt Disney Concert Hall — the fantastical Frank Gehry-designed home of the orchestra — to vivid life. Anadol’s work exemplifies the cutting edge.”
— Kyle Huewe, Flaunt
Infinite Space
Immersive Installation
Date: February 7th, 2018 – March 17th, 2018
Project Partners: Pilevneli Gallery, UCSF/ Neuroscape Lab Members, and Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D.
“Infinite Space was the first major retrospective of works from Refik Anadol Studio exploring data sets ranging from human memories to photographs of Mars. The series of works which included an immersive space, infinity room, gallery and data tunnel invited visitors to open their senses to the endless possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.”
– Pelin Kivrak
Machine Hallucination : NYC
Immersive Installation
Date: September 4th, 2019 – February 5th, 2020
“The machine mimics the quality of human memory almost perfectly. In an oldfactory-turned- hi-tech-art-space in Chelsea, the data paintings are almost absurdly moving—flickering, colorful nostalgia not for a New York that no longer exists, but one that never was.”
– Sophie Haigney, Art in America
Latent Being
Immersive Installation
Date: November 29th, 2020 – May 1st, 2020
DDP Seoul Haemong
Data & AI Driven Public Installation
Date: December 21st, 2019
Project Partners: DDP, City of Seoul
Quantum Memories
AI Data Sculpture
Date: December 19th, 2020 – April 18th, 2021
Machine Memoirs: Space
Audio / Video Performance
Date: March 19, 2021
Sense of Space
AI Data Sculpture
Date: March 19th, 2021 – April 26th, 2021
Alkazar Dreams
Immersive Installation
Date: September 20th, 2021
Serpentine Metamorphosis
Immersive Installation
Date: October 5th , 2021
Renaissance Dreams
Immersive Installation
Date: October 10th, 2021
Machine Hallucinations :
Nature Dreams
AI Data Sculpture
Date: November 15th, 2021
Unsupervised MoMA
AI Data Paintings
Date: November, 2021
Machine Hallucinations : Coral Dreams
AI Data Sculpture
Date: December, 2021
“I loved it… Anadol’s work — visually stunning, intelligent, mesmerizing amazed and moved me.”
– Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic
